I tend to agree. One-off hotfixes are difficult to support. Especially, when people start applying multiple hotfixes that may or may not interplay very well together.
If you package cumulative service packs though, which replace all aspects of the Tomcat installation (ie. Release-Notes-4.1.txt, Server HTTP Header attribute in the server's HTTP response) with the appropriate version + SP number, then that would be a little more supportable because you can give the user instructions to recover the exact version and service pack they are running. Also, each Service Pack can be run through rigorous regression testing and QA Testing prior to release. On one hand cutting edge users want the latest fixes asap, but the organization always has to focus on supporting the majority of the users who don't necessarily need the new fix yet. It's a tough balancing act. So far, I think you guys are doing a fine job. Regards, /weiyeh ----------------------------------------------- Core Web Engineering 180 Maiden Lane, 12th floor -----Original Message----- From: Filip Hanik - Dev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 10:21 AM To: Tomcat Developers List Subject: Re: cvs commit: jakarta-tomcat-catalina/catalina/src/share/org/apache/coyote/tomcat5 CoyoteAdapter.java I guess I should explain, since a bunch of user already downloaded 5.0.24, it is not a good idea to release a fix with the same version number. Makes it a lot harder to help people out on the user list Filip ----- Original Message ----- From: "Filip Hanik - Dev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 9:14 AM Subject: Re: cvs commit: jakarta-tomcat-catalina/catalina/src/share/org/apache/coyote/tomcat5 CoyoteAdapter.java >- 5.0.25 +1 >- A hotfix for 5.0.24 Big -1 Filip ----- Original Message ----- From: "Remy Maucherat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 6:32 AM Subject: Re: cvs commit: jakarta-tomcat-catalina/catalina/src/share/org/apache/coyote/tomcat5 CoyoteAdapter.java [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > remm 2004/05/14 04:00:25 > > Modified: catalina/src/share/org/apache/coyote/tomcat5 > CoyoteAdapter.java > Log: > - Major mistake: the sever cookies should be parsed after the context is mapped, > otherwise, the session cookie is never considered valid, and it will use the last > one. > - Bug 28971. So we're going to have a hotfix ... Two possibilities: - 5.0.25 (cool, I thought we had avoided it ;) ) - A hotfix for 5.0.24 (I'll put and sign a .zip and a .tgz, sign them, and link them from the news and binaries pages) Rémy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
